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Segment information
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2016
Segment Reporting [Abstract]  
Segment information
Segment information

Effective the first quarter of 2016, we are reporting our financial results within the following business segments: North America Commercial P&C Insurance, North America Personal P&C Insurance, North America Agricultural Insurance, Overseas General Insurance, Global Reinsurance, and Life Insurance. We have also redefined Corporate to include all run-off asbestos and environmental (A&E) exposures, the results of run-off Brandywine business, the results of Westchester specialty operations for 1996 and prior years and certain other run-off exposures. All legacy ACE prior period amounts (i.e., legacy Chubb Corp prior period results are not included in the prior period amounts in the tables below) have been adjusted to conform to the new segment presentation.

The North America Commercial P&C Insurance segment includes the business written by Chubb divisions that provide property and casualty (P&C) insurance and services to large, middle market and small commercial businesses in the U.S., Bermuda and Canada. These divisions write a variety of coverages, including traditional commercial property, marine, general casualty, workers’ compensation, package policies, and risk management; specialty categories such as professional lines, marine and construction risk, environmental and cyber risk, excess casualty, as well as group accident and health (A&H) insurance. This segment includes our North American Major Accounts and Specialty Insurance (principally large corporate accounts and wholesale business), and the North American Commercial Insurance divisions (principally middle market and small commercial accounts).

The North America Personal P&C Insurance segment includes the business written by Chubb’s North America Personal Risk Services division, which comprises Chubb high net worth personal lines business and ACE Private Risk Services, with operations in U.S. and Canada. This segment provides affluent and high net worth individuals and families with homeowners, automobile, valuables, umbrella and recreational marine insurance and services.

The North America Agricultural Insurance segment includes the business written by Rain and Hail Service, Inc. which provides comprehensive multiple peril crop and crop-hail insurance, and Chubb Agribusiness, which offers farm and ranch property as well as specialty P&C coverages, including commercial agriculture products.

The Overseas General Insurance segment includes the business written by two Chubb divisions that provide P&C insurance and services in the 51 countries outside of North America where the company operates.  Chubb International provides commercial P&C traditional and specialty lines serving large corporations, middle market and small customers, A&H and traditional and specialty personal lines through retail brokers, agents and other channels locally around the world. Chubb Global Markets provides commercial P&C excess and surplus lines and A&H through wholesale brokers in the London market and through Lloyd’s.  These divisions write a variety of coverages, including traditional commercial property and casualty, specialty categories such as financial lines, marine, energy, aviation, political risk and construction risk, as well as group A&H and traditional and specialty personal lines. 

The Global Reinsurance segment primarily includes the reinsurance business written by Chubb Tempest Re as well as the legacy Chubb U.K. Assumed Reinsurance business, which is active, and the legacy Chubb run-off Reinsurance business.

The Life Insurance segment includes the business written by Chubb Life, Chubb Tempest Life Re and Combined Insurance’s North America operations.

Corporate primarily includes loss and loss expenses of asbestos and environmental (A&E) run-off liabilities, and the results of our non-insurance companies including Chubb Limited, Chubb Group Management and Holdings Ltd, and Chubb INA Holdings, Inc. Our exposure to A&E claims principally arises out of liabilities acquired when we purchased Westchester Specialty in 1998, CIGNA’s P&C business in 1999, and legacy Chubb Corp run-off business in 2016, and certain other run-off exposures.

In addition, revenue and expenses managed at the corporate level, including realized gains and losses, interest expense, the non-operating income of our partially-owned entities, amortization of purchased intangibles, Chubb integration expenses, and income taxes will be reported within Corporate. The amortization of purchased intangibles includes amortization of agency distribution relationships and renewal rights, internally developed technology, and the fair value adjustment on acquired loss reserves. Also the amortization of fair value adjustments on acquired invested assets and debt associated with the Chubb Corp acquisition is considered a corporate cost and is therefore included in Corporate. These items will not be allocated to the segment level; therefore, the segment income statement will only include underwriting income, net investment income, and beginning with the second quarter of 2016, other operating income and expense items such as each segment's share of the operating income (loss) related to partially-owned entities and miscellaneous income and expense items that the segments are held accountable for. We determined that this definition of segment income is appropriate and aligns with how the business is managed. As we progress through the integration and refine our processes, we may continue to further refine our segments and segment income measures. The prior periods have been adjusted to conform to the new segment presentation. Chubb integration expenses are one-time in nature and are not related to the on-going business activities of the segments. The Chief Executive Officer does not manage segment results or allocate resources to segments when considering these costs and they are therefore excluded from our definition of segment income.

For segment reporting purposes, certain items have been presented in a different manner below than in the consolidated financial statements. Management uses underwriting income as the main measure of segment performance. Chubb calculates underwriting income by subtracting Losses and loss expenses, Policy benefits, Policy acquisition costs, and Administrative expenses from Net premiums earned. To calculate segment income, include net investment income and other (income) expense. For the North America Agricultural segment, management includes gains and losses on crop derivatives as a component of underwriting income. For example, for the three months ended June 30, 2016, underwriting income in our North America Agricultural Insurance segment was $14 million. This amount includes $2 million of realized losses related to crop derivatives which are reported in Net realized gains (losses) in the Corporate column below.

The following tables present the Statement of Operations by segment:
 
North America Commercial P&C Insurance

 
North America Personal P&C Insurance

 
North America Agricultural Insurance

 
Overseas General Insurance

 
Global
Reinsurance

 
Life Insurance

 
Corporate

 
Chubb
Consolidated

For the Three Months Ended
 
 
 
 
 
 
June 30, 2016
 
 
 
 
 
 
(in millions of U.S. dollars)
 
 
 
 
 
 
Net premiums written
$
3,245

 
$
1,231

 
$
375

 
$
2,031

 
$
230

 
$
527

 
$

 
$
7,639

Net premiums earned
3,148

 
1,140

 
327

 
2,093

 
185

 
512

 

 
7,405

Losses and loss expenses
1,971

 
661

 
284

 
1,089

 
87

 
147

 
15

 
4,254

Policy benefits

 

 

 

 

 
146

 

 
146

Policy acquisition costs
545

 
269

 
25

 
537

 
47

 
137

 

 
1,560

Administrative expenses
299

 
98

 
2

 
277

 
14

 
77

 
62

 
829

Underwriting income (loss)
333

 
112

 
16

 
190

 
37

 
5

 
(77
)
 
616

Net investment income (loss)
468

 
55

 
5

 
147

 
65

 
69

 
(101
)
 
708

Other (income) expense
(9
)
 
3

 

 
(5
)
 
(2
)
 

 
(16
)
 
(29
)
Segment income (loss)
810

 
164

 
21

 
342

 
104

 
74

 
(162
)
 
1,353

Net realized gains (losses) including OTTI
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
(216
)
 
(216
)
Interest expense
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
153

 
153

Amortization of purchased intangibles
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
5

 
5

Chubb integration expenses
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
98

 
98

Income tax expense
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
155

 
155

Net income (loss)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
$
(789
)
 
$
726


 
North America Commercial P&C Insurance

 
North America Personal P&C Insurance

 
North America Agricultural Insurance

 
Overseas General Insurance

 
Global
Reinsurance

 
Life Insurance

 
Corporate

 
Chubb
Consolidated

For the Three Months Ended
 
 
 
 
 
June 30, 2015
 
 
 
 
 
(in millions of U.S. dollars)
 
 
 
 
 
Net premiums written
$
1,428

 
$
547

 
$
379

 
$
1,669

 
$
261

 
$
500

 
$

 
$
4,784

Net premiums earned
1,419

 
269

 
321

 
1,644

 
220

 
487

 

 
4,360

Losses and loss expenses
916

 
156

 
271

 
816

 
72

 
137

 
49

 
2,417

Policy benefits

 

 

 

 

 
153

 

 
153

Policy acquisition costs
131

 
(1
)
 
23

 
396

 
60

 
118

 

 
727

Administrative expenses
154

 
34

 
4

 
254

 
13

 
74

 
45

 
578

Underwriting income (loss)
218

 
80

 
23

 
178

 
75

 
5

 
(94
)
 
485

Net investment income
262

 
7

 
6

 
139

 
79

 
66

 
3

 
562

Other (income) expense
1

 

 
1

 
(4
)
 

 
(7
)
 
(29
)
 
(38
)
Segment income (loss)
479

 
87

 
28

 
321

 
154

 
78

 
(62
)
 
1,085

Net realized gains (losses) including OTTI


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
126

 
126

Interest expense


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
71

 
71

Amortization of purchased intangibles


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
55

 
55

Income tax expense


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
143

 
143

Net income (loss)


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
$
(205
)
 
$
942


 
North America Commercial P&C Insurance

 
North America Personal P&C Insurance

 
North America Agricultural Insurance

 
Overseas General Insurance

 
Global
Reinsurance

 
Life Insurance

 
Corporate

 
Chubb
Consolidated

For the Six Months Ended
 
 
 
 
 
 
June 30, 2016
 
 
 
 
 
 
(in millions of U.S. dollars)
 
 
 
 
 
 
Net premiums written
$
5,547

 
$
2,102

 
$
439

 
$
4,072

 
$
431

 
$
1,043

 
$

 
$
13,634

Net premiums earned
6,044

 
2,164

 
350

 
4,048

 
387

 
1,009

 

 
14,002

Losses and loss expenses
3,718

 
1,322

 
254

 
2,110

 
176

 
324

 
24

 
7,928

Policy benefits

 

 

 

 

 
272

 

 
272

Policy acquisition costs
1,027

 
518

 
29

 
1,040

 
100

 
259

 

 
2,973

Administrative expenses
565

 
186

 
(2
)
 
540

 
28

 
149

 
135

 
1,601

Underwriting income (loss)
734

 
138

 
69

 
358

 
83

 
5

 
(159
)
 
1,228

Net investment income (loss)
894

 
102

 
10

 
293

 
132

 
136

 
(185
)
 
1,382

Other (income) expense
(9
)
 
4

 

 
(10
)
 
(3
)
 
6

 
11

 
(1
)
Segment income (loss)
1,637

 
236

 
79

 
661

 
218

 
135

 
(355
)
 
2,611

Net realized gains (losses) including OTTI
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
(610
)
 
(610
)
Interest expense
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
299

 
299

Amortization of purchased intangibles
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
12

 
12

Chubb integration expenses
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
246

 
246

Income tax expense
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
279

 
279

Net income (loss)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
$
(1,801
)
 
$
1,165


 
North America Commercial P&C Insurance

 
North America Personal P&C Insurance

 
North America Agricultural Insurance

 
Overseas General Insurance

 
Global
Reinsurance

 
Life Insurance

 
Corporate

 
Chubb
Consolidated

For the Six Months Ended
 
 
 
 
 
June 30, 2015
 
 
 
 
 
(in millions of U.S. dollars)
 
 
 
 
 
Net premiums written
$
2,725

 
$
680

 
$
467

 
$
3,463

 
$
534

 
$
991

 
$

 
$
8,860

Net premiums earned
2,799

 
415

 
385

 
3,281

 
446

 
961

 

 
8,287

Losses and loss expenses
1,831

 
267

 
293

 
1,630

 
171

 
289

 
58

 
4,539

Policy benefits

 

 

 

 

 
295

 

 
295

Policy acquisition costs
261

 
30

 
19

 
785

 
114

 
225

 

 
1,434

Administrative expenses
305

 
53

 
3

 
510

 
25

 
147

 
89

 
1,132

Underwriting income (loss)
402

 
65

 
70

 
356

 
136

 
5

 
(147
)
 
887

Net investment income
520

 
12

 
12

 
277

 
154

 
132

 
6

 
1,113

Other (income) expense
(2
)
 

 
2

 
(6
)
 
(1
)
 
(16
)
 
(50
)
 
(73
)
Segment income (loss)
924

 
77

 
80

 
639

 
291

 
153

 
(91
)
 
2,073

Net realized gains (losses) including OTTI
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
37

 
37

Interest expense
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
139

 
139

Amortization of purchased intangibles
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
85

 
85

Income tax expense
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
263

 
263

Net income (loss)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
$
(541
)
 
$
1,623



Underwriting assets are reviewed in total by management for purposes of decision-making. Other than goodwill and other intangible assets, Chubb does not allocate assets to its segments.